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After Hours Offers Preview of An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018, Live Music by Nooky Jones, DJ Sets by Shannon Blowtorch, Art-Making Workshop and More

Be the first to preview An Art of Changes and celebrate with live music by Nooky Jones, DJ sets by Shannon Blowtorch, a drop-in art-making workshop, complimentary late night bites, pop-up bars with specialty cocktails, and more. Free tickets for members are available through January 31.

Become a new Walker member and receive up to two free tickets! Find out more at walkerart.org/membership.

After Hours: Jasper Johns
Saturday, February 15
Walker Art Center, 8:30pm
$20 (Free tickets for Walker members through January 31)

DJ Shannon Blowtorch
Main Lobby, All Night
Shannon Blowtorch is one of the hottest DJs in the Twin Cities. Her masterful set will kick off the evening and keep you dancing all night long.

Nooky Jones
Garden Terrace Room, 10–11pm
Neo-soul band Nooky Jones blends jazz, R&B, and funk to create a warm, deeply grooving sound. This six-piece group from Minneapolis creates undeniably catchy music with smooth vocals, intricate horn arrangements, and tight rhythms.

Art Lab
8:30–11:45pm
Channel your inner Jasper Johns and create a personalized notecard at this drop-in art workshop.

Walker Shop
8:30pm–11pm
Discover distinctive jewelry, books, and the other unique items in the Walker Shop. Walker members save 10% on all purchases.

Food
Enjoy doughnuts and a loaded tater tot bar with topping choices.

Signature Cocktails

  • Gin & Jasper
    • Cucumber-Infused Gin, Tonic Water, Rosemary Simple Syrup, & Lime
  • Tipsy Target
    • Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, Club Soda, & Lemon

Signature Mocktail

  • Fizzy Flag

Cranberry Juice, Cran-Raspberry La Croix, & Lime

 

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

An Art of Changes surveys six decades of Jasper Johns’s work in printmaking through a selection of some 90 works in intaglio, lithography, woodcut, linoleum cut, screenprinting, lead relief, and blind embossing —all drawn from the Walker’s complete collection of the artist’s prints. The first major exhibition of his prints in two decades, it will be first presented at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, before traveling to the Walker and three additional US venues.

Johns (b. 1930) is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest American artists. He left his native South Carolina for New York City in the early 1950s and soon became friends with Robert Rauschenberg and other young artists who were finding their subject matter in the everyday world. Johns’s paintings of targets and the American flag, first shown in 1958 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, brought him instant acclaim and established him as a critical link between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. In the ensuing 60 years, he has continued to astonish viewers with the beauty and complexity of his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints.

An Art of Changes traces Johns’s deep immersion in printmaking, beginning with his first lithograph, Target, made in 1960. In the exhibition’s four thematic, roughly chronological sections, viewers will follow Johns as he recycles and revises his motifs. In addition to the familiar flags, numerals, and targets, the exhibition includes images that explore artists’ tools, materials, and techniques of mark-making; abstract works based on motifs known as flagstones and hatch marks; and later works that teem with autobiographical and personal imagery. The Walker’s presentation will also include a small selection of paintings and sculpture.

Curators: Joan Rothfuss, guest curator, Visual Arts

 

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